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Templates?

mmsj666mmsj666 Posts: 29
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What are templates? Does anyone have time to answer this question for me? I recently made my first purchase from the dad store. And I noticed in the product library a lot of stuff I ordered has a download only blue link labeled TEMPLATES.What is this? Is it free? Did I already pay for it? Will I be charged for down loading it? I already got the content through dad connect. Did I cheat myself out of some free content?

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Templates show how the surface of the model is laid out flat so you can make your own textures for it.  They aren't required and won't show up at all in Daz Studio.  They are free.

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    There isn't any reason you can't use the provided textures as a template if you want to make your own texture for an object, without the templates.

    It's just a matter of cloning your own textures over the existing textures and then saving them. Most of these templates are completely unnecessary.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865
    fred9803 said:

    There isn't any reason you can't use the provided textures as a template if you want to make your own texture for an object, without the templates.

    It's just a matter of cloning your own textures over the existing textures and then saving them. Most of these templates are completely unnecessary.

    Not entirely true - a texture will often bleed over the edges of the template, so it still works when downsampled for distant items in 3Delight for example, as a result of which placing things with precision without the mesh grid to give a guide can be tricky. There's also the risk of not fully covering the texture, resulting in an accidental copyright infringement: having a clean workflow starting from templates or seam guides is much safer.

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    I wouldn't think copywrite infringement would apply to anything for personal use at all that wasn't distributed to others, which hasn't anything to do with the the OP post. I've cloned dozens of my own textures onto the maps of others for my renders and if the cops have a problem with that I'm sure they can find me.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    As someone who classes themselves as a texture artist I can honestly say that I couldn't have made any of my texture sets without having had, or made, a template.  Trying to cover over someone elses texture is no way to make a new style. If you check, for example< some of the textures that I have made for the PoTS (Pharoahs of the Sun) dress and add onse, you will see what I mean. None of these textures could have been made accurately by painting over an existing texture.  http://chohole.ovbi.org/page_2.htm

    I chose this particular clothes model as a demo, as I was one of the first to realise the versatility of the actual clothing item.

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    As templates are simply outlines of existing maps, there is usually nothing much to them than other than a blank of the provided texture/s And you only have to use these to transpose your own textures onto. The art into it is to make sure your texture fits and the burnt in folds are preserved, if they are present, not that hard actually.

    Perhaps someone can explain how doing this quite simple procedure of changing textures violates the copyright of the PA. AFAIK these is no reason to think it does if done on a personal basis. Maybe I'm wrong, in which case please enlighten me.

     

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,865

    It's OK in most cases if you are not sharing the result, but that doesn't alter the fact that the texture doesn't give the information that a template does.

  • fred9803fred9803 Posts: 1,564

    That's true Richard.

  • mmsj666mmsj666 Posts: 29
    I think I get it now.so the grid in the templates let's you know where the seams are so you can make a new texture that not only fits but also works with the object. I've made all kinds of textures to gain diversity in my limited run times and I've never used a template before. I think a template might be able to improve some of my work. I think I'll try one out. Just as soon as I figure out this new issue I discovered while getting ready to try out a template. It seems some files we're missing so I can't load my new figure properly. It asks me to down load or run the update but after each of my four tries it says the same thing.like a loop and not the good kind. Should I uninstall and reinstall? The compromised product only or the whole bundle? Are there other options?
  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,613

    Which product is it?

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